Behind the Stories
Behind the Stories will take listeners—you guessed it!—behind the stories that appear in 5280 magazine and on 5280.com. Each episode, hosted by editorial director Geoff Van Dyke, will feature editors and writers from 5280 discussing articles they've been working on and giving readers insight into how these stories come together.
Episodes
19 episodes
The Charming, Eccentric, Blessed Life of Lee Maxwell
Ninety-four-year-old Lee Maxwell lives in Eaton and owns a Guinness-world-record-holding washing machine museum. When his wife of 71 years recently died, Max...
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24:58
Meet the Local Nonprofit Responsible for Nearly Every Trail on Colorado’s Fourteeners
Episode 18: The Colorado Fourteeners Initiative (CFI) has built sustainable routes on 36 14,000-foot peaks in the past 30 years. Lindsey King joins the pod to discuss the ...
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The Enduring Legacy of Colorado's All-Woman Professional Baseball Team
Thirty years ago, the barnstorming Colorado Silver Bullets women’s baseball team played its first season to national fanfare. Three decades later, the players have moved on in their lives, even as their legacy is still being written. Robert San...
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Episode 16: Meet the con artist who deceived the Front Range tech community
When Aaron Clark disappeared from Colorado, he left hundreds of thousands of dollars unaccounted for. His employees, contractors, and investors are still wondering who he really was—and where he is today. Chris Walker joins the pod to reveal
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42:27
Did bad fire science send Tim and Deb Nicholls to prison?
Twenty years ago, a house fire killed three children. Prosecutors used spurious science to convict Tim and Deb Nicholls of murder. Do they deserve a new trial? Robert Sanchez joins the pod to discuss his
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Inside the local gravel biking boom, and the Colorado-based effort to create a federal office of outdoor recreation
Everything you need to know about gravel biking in Colorado, plus Denverite Luis Benitez's push to open an office of outdoor recreation in Washington, D.C.
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28:38
The Deion Sanders experiment at CU Boulder starts now. PLUS, learn how to sail in Colorado.
In episode 13 of Behind the Stories, we're talking about CU Boulder's big bet on Deion Sanders and everything you need to know if you want to start
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45:03
The Casa Bonita Reopening Megasode!
We're talking all things Casa Bonita in this episode! The pink palace partially reopened on June 23, so here we dive into the restaurant's new menu and ...
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36:40
Denver's cooling real estate market, and more!
Inside Denver's cooling real estate market; the truth about
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39:24
Episode 10: Things every Colorado kid should do. PLUS: Inside Denver's new vinyl record pressing plant.
Episode 10 of Behind the Stories highlights some of the coolest things Colorado kids can do this summer—and beyond, and Vinyl Me, Please's forthcoming
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29:42
Episode Nine: Denver's food truck scene, and more!
Episode nine of Behind the Stories features a look at the booming food truck scene in Denver, and the inside story of why Arvada Police shot and killed a man who...
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30:56
Episode Eight: Denver distilleries, A-Basin's big business move, and the future of Larimer Square
Episode eight of Behind the Stories features a discussion on some of our favorite distillery tasting rooms in and around Denver; how
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30:23
Episode Seven: Dry January, permaculture, and why some millennials are leaving Denver
Episode seven of Behind the Stories features a discussion on why Dry January has gotten so big, plus tips and tricks for participating; the
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Episode Six: Backcountry skiing, the fentanyl crisis, and a murder mystery.
Episode four of Behind the Stories features a discussion on how to safely get into backcountry skiing; the fentanyl crisis<...
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42:46
Episode Five: The 25 Best Restaurants in Denver
Episode five of Behind the Stories is all restaurants all the time as we discuss this year's 25 Best Restaurants feature.
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31:01
Episode Four: The housing shortage in Breckenridge, leaf peeping in electric vehicles, and the future of downtown Denver
Episode four of Behind the Stories features a discussion on the housing shortages in Breckenridge and Summit County; how you can
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37:03
Episode Three: Rare diseases in Colorado, the battle over the herb oshá, and disc golf
Episode three of Behind the Stories features a discussion on how rare diseases are treated in Colorado; the battle over the herb oshá, which has healing properties and only grows at high elevations in parts of southwest Colorado and the Rocky M...
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Episode Two: Top of the Town 2022 and more!
Episode two of Behind the Stories features the 2022 installment of 5280's Top of the Town package—the magazine's celebration of life in Denver—and dives into two stories about the Marshall fire recovery roughly half a year after ...
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Episode One: Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, and more!
Episode one of Behind the Stories features a discussion about the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, a lesser-known wilderness area that straddles the Colorado/Wyoming border; an in-depth look at Denver novelist Kali Fajardo-Anstine on the ev...
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